CEU Business School will be soon relocating to the newly developed campus of CEU in Nador street, Budapest. CEU university buildings, previously scattered around the city, will be concentrated at one place near the main building in Nádor Street in the near future. The plans of the Irish firm O’Donnell & Tuomey were rather appealing and the CEU campus redevelopment project was awarded the Planned ...

When you have FRÖCCS (Wine Spritzer) next time, make sure it’s made with SZÓDAVÍZ (carbonated water) and not plastic bottled SZÉNSAVAS ÁSVÁNYVÍZ (carbonated mineral water). While SZÓDAVÍZ, chilled and fresh, brings out the best in wine and makes it a light summer drink, the minerals in the latter spoil the inherent properties of wine.

Wage hikes in Hungary’s health-care sector are expected to slow down the emigration of doctors and other staff, the daily Magyar Idők said on Wednesday. Quoting the latest data by the government body responsible for training and keeping records on health care (ENKK), in the first half of the year 419 doctors, 259 ancillary staff, 108 dentists and 23 pharmacists requested documentation needed for ...

Index.hu reports that the Haszon Magazine, through a new method, compiled a list of the 100 best Hungarian doctors. The Thursday (July 7) issue of the magazine lines up the most excellent doctors of each specialization area – from ear, nose and throat specialists to gynaecologists, and gastroenterologists – chosen by the professionals.

Health care providers must not refuse services because of invalid social insurance cards, the government has confirmed in a decree. Patients have often complained that doctors and pharmacists refuse services when the patient’s identification number does not produce a green light on computers.

As always, Hungarian Spectrum welcomes democratic voices from and about Hungary. Today Ferenc Gyurcsány, prime minister of Hungary between 2004 and 2009, offers his solutions to the ills of western democracies. Mr. Gyurcsány is currently the chairman of Demokratikus Koalíció, which he established in 2011.

More and more people have no access to health care services in Hungary, research institute Political Capital found in a study carried out with the financial help of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. In April 2016 there were no family doctors in 260 locations meaning that some 5% of the population did not have their own family doctor.

The government has reached an agreement with health-care unions on raising base salaries in the sector starting in September this year, the human resources minister announced on Thursday. The base salary of doctors and pharmacists will increase by gross 107,000 forints (EUR 344) from September 1 this year and by another 100,000 forints from November 1, 2017, Zoltán Balog told a press conference.

CEU Business School will be soon relocating to the newly developed campus of CEU in Nador street, Budapest. CEU university buildings, previously scattered around the city, will be concentrated at one place near the main building in Nádor Street in the near future. The plans of the Irish firm O’Donnell & Tuomey were rather appealing and the CEU campus redevelopment project was awarded the Planned ...

When you have FRÖCCS (Wine Spritzer) next time, make sure it’s made with SZÓDAVÍZ (carbonated water) and not plastic bottled SZÉNSAVAS ÁSVÁNYVÍZ (carbonated mineral water). While SZÓDAVÍZ, chilled and fresh, brings out the best in wine and makes it a light summer drink, the minerals in the latter spoil the inherent properties of wine.

Wage hikes in Hungary’s health-care sector are expected to slow down the emigration of doctors and other staff, the daily Magyar Idők said on Wednesday. Quoting the latest data by the government body responsible for training and keeping records on health care (ENKK), in the first half of the year 419 doctors, 259 ancillary staff, 108 dentists and 23 pharmacists requested documentation needed for ...

Index.hu reports that the Haszon Magazine, through a new method, compiled a list of the 100 best Hungarian doctors. The Thursday (July 7) issue of the magazine lines up the most excellent doctors of each specialization area – from ear, nose and throat specialists to gynaecologists, and gastroenterologists – chosen by the professionals.

Health care providers must not refuse services because of invalid social insurance cards, the government has confirmed in a decree. Patients have often complained that doctors and pharmacists refuse services when the patient’s identification number does not produce a green light on computers.

As always, Hungarian Spectrum welcomes democratic voices from and about Hungary. Today Ferenc Gyurcsány, prime minister of Hungary between 2004 and 2009, offers his solutions to the ills of western democracies. Mr. Gyurcsány is currently the chairman of Demokratikus Koalíció, which he established in 2011.

More and more people have no access to health care services in Hungary, research institute Political Capital found in a study carried out with the financial help of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. In April 2016 there were no family doctors in 260 locations meaning that some 5% of the population did not have their own family doctor.

The government has reached an agreement with health-care unions on raising base salaries in the sector starting in September this year, the human resources minister announced on Thursday. The base salary of doctors and pharmacists will increase by gross 107,000 forints (EUR 344) from September 1 this year and by another 100,000 forints from November 1, 2017, Zoltán Balog told a press conference.

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